World Association of News Publishers


المنتدى العربي للصحافة الحرة

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المنتدى العربي للصحافة الحرة

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  • journalist, broadcaster and author
    Alan Pearce is a journalist, broadcaster and author specializing in cyber-security and counter-surveillance and is the author of “Deep Web for Journalists: Comms, Counter-Surveillance, Search”. With...
  • David Hoffman,  President, Emeritus and Founder, Internews Network
    President, Emeritus and Founder, Internews Network
    David Hoffman is President Emeritus and Founder of Internews Network, a global non-profit organization that fosters independent media and access to information worldwide. The organization has helped...
  • Dr. Courtney Radsch
    Senior Programme Officer in the Freedom of Expression Section at UNESCO
    Dr. Courtney Radsch is Senior Programme Officer in the Freedom of Expression Section at UNESCO, where she focuses in part on the Arab region. She is also editor of the forthcoming UNESCO publication...
  • Naglaa Emary is the former BBC World Service Cairo bureau chief, as well as the Editor of Arab world special projects for the BBC. She was also head of programs at the BBC and a Former Professor at...
  • Fatima El-Issawi, member at POLIS, London School of Economics
    Member, POLIS, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, UK
    Fatima El-Issawi is a fellow at POLIS, the journalism and society think tank in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE). She is leading the research project...
  • Fatima Farag, Founder and Director, Welad Elbalad Media Services LTD, Egypt
    Founder and Director, Welad Elbalad Media Services LTD, Egypt
    Fatemah Farag is the Founder and Director of Welad Elbalad Media Services LTD, a company dedicated to community media development and media excellence in Egypt. Before establishing Welad Elbalad...
  • Hisham Almiraat, director of Global Voices Advocacy (Advox), Morocco
    Director of Global Voices Advocacy (Advox), Morocco
    Hisham Almiraat is director of Global Voices Advocacy (Advox), an international organization advocating for freedom of expression online. He's also a medical doctor and an activist passionate about...
  • Kamel Labidi, Vigilance - Association for Democracy and the Civil State, Tunisia
    Vigilance - Association for Democracy and the Civil State, Tunisia
    Kamel is a Tunisian journalist and human rights defender with many years of media experience. Following the 2011 revolution he became president of the National Authority for Reform of Information and...
  • Leila Nachawati
    Professor of Communications, Carlos III Univertisty, Spain
    Leila Nachawati is a Madrid-based communication strategist and human rights activist. She is a professor of Communications at Carlos III University. A frequent writer of human rights promotion, the...
  • freelance writer and broadcaster
    Magdi Abdelhadi is a freelance writer and broadcaster and former Arab foreign affairs analyst for the BBC, educated at Stockholm University. He was born in Egypt, and has lived in Sweden and Britain...
  • Malachy Browne
    News Editor, Storyful, Ireland
    Malachy Browne is News Editor with Storyful, the first news agency of the social media age. Headquartered in Dublin and with staff in Asia and the US, Storyful helps its news clients discover, verify...
  • Ragaie Elmerghani, Egypt
    Coordinator of the Steering Committee of the National Commission for Self-Regulation of the Media, Egypt
    Education: Graduated of: Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, Journalism Department, 1970. Career achievements: Mainly concerned with Civil Society issues related to freedom of express and developing...
  • Nabil Wakim, Digital Editor, Le Monde, France
    Digital Editor, Le Monde, France
    A graduate of Celsa journalism school in Paris, Nabil, born in 1981 in Beirut (Lebanon), is the digital editor at Le Monde, in Paris. He was in charge of the web/print politics department during the...
  • journalist and professor at Paris 8, France
    Nicolas Beau, is a journalist and a professor at Paris 8. He has worked for French newspapers Le Monde, Libération and the satirical newspaper, Canard Enchainé. In his most recent venture, he is the...
  • With an MA in Politics and Strategy in International Public Action, Nour Hemici has worked in the field of human rights and democracy, support to civil society’s organizations and media groups. As a...
  • Journalist
    Omar Belhouchet is an Algerian journalist who has been prosecuted by his government on numerous occasions. He publishes the daily newspaper El Watan (English: "The Nation"), which he founded in 1990...
  • Rami Jarrah is a Syrian political activist who was often cited by international media outlets under the pseudonym Alexander Page"[1] during the Syrian civil war. The barring of most international...
  • Rana Sabbagh, Executive Director, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
    Executive Director, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
    Rana Sabbagh, Jordan, is executive director of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, the Amman-based media support network promoting investigative reporting in nine Arab countries. In 28 years...
  • Blogger, Netherlands
    Sami Ben Gharbia is an anti-censorship activist and blogger based in the Netherlands. He is the co-founder of nawaat.org, an award-winning Tunisian collective blog about news and politics; Cybversion...
  • Tarek Atia, Head of E-MDP, Egypt
    CEO and Founder, EMDP (Egypt Media Development Program), Egypt
    A journalist and early online innovator in Egypt in the late 1990s, Tarek Atia founded web portals cairolive.com and zahma.com, was Assistant Editor in Chief of Al-Ahram Weekly, and has had his...
  • Larry Kilman, Secretary General, WAN-IFRA, France
    Secretary General, WAN-IFRA, France
    Larry Kilman is the Paris-based Secretary General for the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the global organisation representing more than 18,000 publications, 15,000...
  • Aidan White, Director, The Ethical Journalism Network
    Director, The Ethical Journalism Network
    Aidan White is a journalist. He is Director of the Ethical Journalism Network, a global campaign promoting good governance and ethical conduct in media. He was the General Secretary of the...

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  • 24 Nov 2013 - 26 Nov 2013
    Tunis
    Tunisia

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